Video: Top 10 Hidden Gems in Visual Studio - Speed Up Development Without Increasing Your Costs

Channel: IAmTimCorey

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Visual Studio is much more than just a text editor. There is a ton of power built into the platform. Before you go out and spend a lot of money on 3rd party tools, you should get to know what is already available to you in Visual Studio. That is why in this video, I am going to show you ten of my favorite features to make your development faster and easier.

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Top 10 List

  1. Open Containing Folder (right-click on a tab) and Copy Full Path (right-click on a tab)

  2. Add suggestions for assemblies and NuGet packages as well as prefer auto-properties - Under Tools - Options - Text Editor - C# - Advanced

  3. Go To Definition (F12 or Ctrl+Click) or Go To Implementation (Ctrl+F12)

  4. Go To All (Ctrl+T or Ctrl+,)

  5. Refactoring (Ctrl+. or Alt+Enter)

  6. Code Cleanup (Ctrl+E,D) - more cleanup options under Tools - Options - Text Editor - C# - Code Style - Formatting

  7. Interactive Window (under View - Other Windows - C# Interactive)

  8. Move Code (Alt+Up/Down Arrow)

  9. Show Intellisense (Ctrl+J) or Show Parameter Information (Ctrl+Shift+Space)

  10. Multi-Cursor (Shift+Alt+Up/Down Arrow)

User-provided time codes:

0:00 - Overview

1:33 - Right click on a tab - Open Containing Folder to open File Explorer at the file's location

2:19 - Right click on a tab - Copy Full Path to copy the full path of the file

2:57 - Create auto properties when extracting an interface with Quick Actions

4:08 - Suggest uses for types in reference assemblies and NuGet packages with Quick Actions

8:50 - Access implementation using Go To Implementation

11:23 - Do a focused search to find types, lines and other useful things using Go To

18:11 - Built-in refactoring using Quick Actions

25:12 - Easily format using Format Document

27:20 - C# Interactive window (Built-in REPL Editor) for quick testing and scripting

31:02 - Moving whole lines up and down in the text editor

33:05 - Useful IntelliSense shortcuts

35:54 - Multi-line modifications

Shortcuts:

Quick Actions: (Alt + Enter), (Ctrl + .) or (Ctrl + ;)

Go To Implementation: (Ctrl + F12) or (Ctrl + Left click)

Go To: (Ctrl + ,) or (Ctrl + T)

Format Document: (Ctrl + E, D)

Moving whole lines: (Alt + Up Arrow) or (Alt + Down Arrow)

Show IntelliSense: (Ctrl + J)

Show overloads: (Ctrl + Shift + Space)